Recent Stories

The land on which CCBC's Catonsville campus is situated is rich in history and has deep connections to community heritage. These 10 signs, located throughout the CCBC Catonsville campus, tell the stories of people who once lived and labored…

On July 22, 1868, a black man by the name of Isaac Moore and an accomplice Ben Preston were accused of robbing and assaulting a woman crossing Bynum’s Run Bridge on Church Hill Road in Harford County, Maryland. Not much can be recollected about…

Garfield King was a resident of the Trappe District in Salisbury, Wicomico County, Maryland. Born in 1880, he graduated from Princess Anne “Colored” Academy and was highly thought of by his neighbors. On May 21st of 1898, King and others got into an…

King Johnson (King Davis) was a 28-year-old African American man living in the Fairfield area of Anne Arundel County (now Baltimore City). According to census records and newspaper reports Fairfield was an integrated community. Uncommon for the area…

Thomas Juricks was an African American who worked as a sharecropper to support his wife and six children. Juricks was working on Schoaff farm in Prince George’s County in 1869, when he had cut open his hand using a scythe. He tore off a piece of his…

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CCBC Invisible History

Learn about the “Invisible History” of the Community College of Baltimore County through a tour of its antebellum Hilton Mansion and other historic sites on and near the Catonsville campus grounds. View photographs and other historic artifacts, presented by CCBC Honors Program students selected to participate in the Invisible History Summer Research Experience at CCBC Catonsville. Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the CCBC Invisible History project seeks to place the recently renovated Hilton Mansion and the campus into a more complete historical context by exploring the lives and legacies of those who aided in the development of the Catonsville community and the broader region, especially enslaved Africans and other laborers whose contributions and experiences have traditi...

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